6th Fan Elite 8

http://www.bisonillustrated.com/2014/03/demand-recount-ncaa-fumbles-6th-fan-contest/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



They now demand a recount.

scott715 wrote:
http://www.bisonillustrated.com/2014/03/demand-recount-ncaa-fumbles-6th-fan-contest/



They now demand a recount.

I couldn't tell how much of what he was writing was TIC. He surely knew of the alledged bot voting by NDSU, so I don't know. He didn't seem to know BYU was not located in SLC, so it's hard to believe it wasn't either a TIC or someone who writes without verifying facts. Needless to say, BYU now has another fan base that probably hates us.

Not BYU's fault that the NCAA decided to throw out bot votes.

I jumped over to one of their boards to see how they were doing; they're some ornery Bisons.

Well they've been hunted all week.

Everyone said we don't have to worry about UTPA, but they've gone from 14% this morning to 27% right now. I think most of the BYU fans got burned out and have heeded the "don't worry, be happy" advice.



It could also be "Revenge of the Bison" and they're teaming up to beat us now. It's still blows my mind how NDSU blames us for anything in this issue.

Were we ever trailing the Bison? He seemed to imply it was back and forth all week. I don't remember it being back and forth. I thought we held the lead the entire week.



Further, he didn't bother to read the statement by the NCAA regarding the elimination of votes.

Yes we were losing late before they threw out the votes. I think it was a NDSU person who complained to the site by the way.

SpiffCoug wrote:
Were we ever trailing the Bison? He seemed to imply it was back and forth all week. I don't remember it being back and forth. I thought we held the lead the entire week.



Further, he didn't bother to read the statement by the NCAA regarding the elimination of votes.

There was 1 day where we lost the lead and went back and forth 51-49 a few times, that was Friday, I think. Prior to that we had always led.

So they are saying that they got buffaloed? ;)

So UTPA is now up to 31%. Is there anyone concerned that out lead has continued to erode all day? I guess there are quite a few singing "All is Well".

FHE voting parties should just be starting. I've done a couple hundred votes today. I think I will go and do some more.

Thanks to my three votes, we went from 69% to 70%.



EM_Puma, All is Swell, All is Swell.



Several years ago, I went on a handcart trek with the youth of the stake. Some of the youth changed the words to the song "Come, Come Ye Saints" so it was about the terrible food we had on the trek and the only part I can remember was them singing "all is swill, all is swill."

Or maybe it was my 500 votes?



PS The swarm starts in 15 minutes. Let's push it to 80%. Note it was 70-30 UCF until they hit them Friday night and took a 10 point lead.

scott715 wrote:
Or maybe it was my 500 votes?

Naw, my vote are weighted way more than yours.,,,,they weigh way more.

They emailed the script to their whole student body. This might be a tight race. If we can keep it above 70% that might discourage them from voting.

scott715 wrote:
They emailed the script to their whole student body. This might be a tight race. If we can keep it above 70% that might discourage them from voting.

The scripts no longer work. They are only accepting vote from Facebook, Twitter, and votes on the site that pass CAPTCHA and are not email address registrations. The script does none of those (doesn't provide an email), and votes using other methods (i.e. the scripts) have been tossed out retroactive to Feb 24th.....your script might appear to be working, but they are being omitted by the receiving end.

My understanding that is not the case. What got tossed were emailed votes (though I don't understand that). It appears the IT guys get into the website and view the number of votes cast. It is over a million.



I could be wrong. Any sources to your information? I have been following the ROC tweets and CB postings for info.



It appears the script worked in ousting UCF last weekend.

scott715 wrote:
My understanding that is not the case. What got tossed were emailed votes (though I don't understand that). It appears the IT guys get into the website and view the number of votes cast. It is over a million.



I could be wrong. Any sources to your information? I have been following the ROC tweets and CB postings for info.



It appears the script worked in ousting UCF last weekend.

My source? The actual voting page.



http://6thfan.ncaa.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; bottom of the page.



Since the 24th, no email registration votes have been counted. Read the terms and conditions where they can change the rules if the "integrity" of the voting process is compromised.



You act surprised that BYU could have beaten NDSU (UCF?) without scripts. I think we ousted NDSU last weekend because we had more votes than they did once the script votes were omitted. You can even see how upset NDSU fans are about the fact that once the script/email registered votes were omitted, what was a nail-biter of a race turned into a laugher with a 56-point overnight swing--the swing was a result of the contest managers throwing votes out, not a result of CougarBoard ingenuity as that board insists:



http://www.bisonillustrated.com/2014/03/demand-recount-ncaa-fumbles-6th-fan-contest/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



UCF was up 73% to 27% over UT Pan Am the last night of voting, but in the morning when the script generated votes were cleared out, UT Pan Am ended up winning.



Given BYU's fan base, there's no reason BYU shouldn't win every round when the one vote per person per day rule is enforced and scripts are sidelined. Did you really think we were in an honest mano y mano with the Bison of NDSU???



If you're using your own email on every entry, you're wasting your time because only one vote per day counts, if they actually accept them. If you are using fake emails generated by a script, you're wasting your time because those are being omitted.



We're currently beating the mighty University of Texas Pan American (who?) because we have an enrollment of 30k while they have only 20k and no real athletics support culture, not because we have clever scripts. It's the same reason we'll beat Arkansas State (16k) or Western Illinois (13k) in the final round. If they had comparable student bodies and fan bases (which is a factor of # of alumni and sprots culture, of which good football is a BIG part), you might expect closer battles, but 69% to 31% seems about right when scripts are thrown out.